Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-14
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.

THE TERRITORY.
The Toston p~ostofice has been removed
TO the smelling town, which is to be known
as Furness.
Thomas Cruise. C. L. Dahier and t. H.
Carter bought the Hundley g Preuitt
building in Helena for the Cruise Savings
bank.
Ed. Obander. a compositor, has eloped
with the daughter of Editor Schmidt OF
the Helena Freie Press.
James Laughman of Helena lost $3.50
by the "saW-dnst" game.
The Blue Grass saloon went up in smoke
on Saturday last. Eight other houses IN
Butte were damaged.
Bennett Bros. and s. Larable have
got theeButte street railway franchise.
Mrs. Joseph Bussiere, whose husband
was killed by Jack Rowand in Butte, has
received $3.50 from the public and has left
for Montreal.
Gov. Leslie was in St. Paul on Saturday
last, on his way to Kentucky.
Hon. J. K. Toole has returned to Helena
from Washington and will remain at home
for the ummsr.
There was a land slide recently on the
Northern Pacific railroad at Painted
Rocks on the Missouri river. 1t detained
the Atlantic express during the day.
j. H. Conrad of Chicago has bought
part of the Hauser addition in Helena. lie
will bald a $4,000 house and reside
therein.
Mrs. Pauline Macarthur has been on a
visit to her brother Henry Bratnober OF
the Drum Iummon mine.
The first number has been printed at
Bozeman of the Gallatin County Welfare
1t is devoted to the cause of temperance
and contains an address from the Bozeman
Prohibition Club. E. M. Gardner is sec
rotary and George Barnably treasurer OF
the committee which issues it.
Huntley& Clark of Toston, Montana,
have issued a map of Montana with atable
of distances. But, strange to say, GreaA
Falls is not in,the lisI.-
r. N. Sutharlin of the Rocky Mountain
Fas5aadman and Miss Hattie Hall of
Chicago were married recently at Oak
Park, Ill.
David Sutton, the mining man, was
thrown from his buggy in Helena and re-
ceived painful injuries.
Louis Henry, one of the old timers of
Helena, is dead.
TIE Helena Episcopal church is to have
a new bell.
Seven or eight boats are on their way
from Bismarck to Fort Benton this week.
Clearance. is the name of a new postofice
at the mouth of the Big Elk.
A. ). Aldrich, foreman, Fl. E. Williams
T T-1-- -,o~o IL frIt,rna hT ON
explosion at the Toston smelter.
Prof. G. C. Swallow has resumed prac-
tee of mining engineering.
Department Commander Waters has
issued a general ~ordersgelative to the OBJ
servance of Memorial day by the Grand
Army Of the Republic in Montana.
Corvallis has a new paper called the
Nep Idea.
w. B. BOWMAN and Miss Agnes Devel-
ING. both Of BoZernan, were married re-
centlya
Capt. Carlin says that natural gas under
lies Bohemian. He believes that there is a
vast coal field also there.
John D. Thomson is looming up as the
most active house builder in Helena.
Jack Waite, ex-champion heavy weight
of Montana, was lately on a visit to James
Batess of Helena. Waite now lives in
Ceur d'Alene.
The. Bonner Mercantile Co. OF Butte
will establish a branch house in Helena.
In Butte the county commissioners have
decided to agitate for an extra session OF
the legislature. They will ask all other
county boards to join in the request. They
say some Of the recent laws are ambig-
ious and that others are defective.
Town lots are selling at a high figure in
Wickes.
Another effort will be made to %reincor-
porate Butte.
Butte is having a week of popular light
operas.
Some people in Butte would like. 70 re
new their acquaintance with the TAXI
who sold them gold-colored tin watches
and chains for $40 apiece.
Seven large brick blocks are projected
in Missoula.
Bennett Bros. will conduct the new
opera house in Missoula.
The Wonen's Christian Temperance
Union gave an entertainment In Helena.
Among those who took part in it were
Prof. Rossner. Mrs. Kelsey, Miss Stout,
Miss Helen P. Clarke and Miss Alma
Alden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuels of Fort Benton
have arrived in Helena and will reside
there hencetorth.
The west portion of the Hauser addition
to Helena viii soon By placed ON the
market.
Woolston promises to begin the con-
struction of the Helena water works in
due time.
The NJ Halter Hardware Go. of Hell